Posted on 08/08/2007 7:28:12 PM PDT by amchugh
Prosecutors say child pornography found on the computer of a Salinas elementary school teacher contained the "morphed" faces of some of his students.
Prosecutor Gary Thelander said accused child molester John Hawthorne, of Soquel, used Photoshop software to cut and paste digital photos of female students onto pornographic images he downloaded from the Internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Okay, now that’s messed up right there.
Just getting qualified to work for the major news networks.
Didn’t he morph their faces onto OTHER child Porn? There is still child porn in there somewhere.
Not too sure on the specifics, and not too sure I want to know.
I saw those, too.
That’s why I made that comment.
What next? I shudder to think.
How about: This is "art" and we wouldn't want to interfere with the teacher's freedom of expression. Why, the ACLU will probably argue that this teacher's sick hobby should be funded by taxpayers and displayed in a museum.
That’s about as good as any I suppose. What do you want to bet this guy has a record somewhere else? If my kids were in that school their arses would be yanked out the moment I heard of this until the guy was banned from coming within 1000 yards of it.
I see more teacher molestation stories than any other profession I can think of including priests. Out of proportion I suspect to the percentage of teachers who commit such crimes.
FYI- Not a CA defender in the least, but it should be noted that more people voted for Bush in CA than in TX.
So...with stories like this every day, why is the main stream media asleep on the pervesity that our nation’s children are exposed to every day?
Also,,,,what about the abuse that is **not** reported? What about the abuse physical, verbal, emotional, and sexual that children suffer from other students?
I have a question for all government school defenders:
Why would you endanger your child this way?
OH,,,yeah right! This doesn’t happen in your child’s blue ribbon government school ( sarc-off)
Don’t you think the best action would be **not** to send them to school?
I seriously mean this. Our government schools are more of a threat than **any** other single issue. We can survive the Islamofacists, or a depression, or an oil crisis.
Our nation will **NOT**survive if the Marxists and their useful idiots (who have thoroughly infested our government schools and our university schools of education) manage to indoctrinate our next generation of citizens.
It is **that** serious!
Solution: We must work to shut these cesspools DOWN! The future of our nation, and its experiment in self-rule, depends upon it.
The article at the link says he was actually charged with molestation and possession of kiddy porn, so the headline kind of left those details out, choosing to focus on his photoshop exploits.
Absolutely! Whenever possible I encourage people to home school. When I find someone that home schools, I heap praise on them like they just came back from the moon.
I see home schooling as a great hope for this nation’s future. In most instances the kids will be better off for the effort. I’ll have to admit I do have some concerns for the children of wigged out hippies from the 70s though. LOL
Some things are inevitable: death, taxes, and finding new reasons to homeschool.
I meant no offense to the good folks of California, like you I presume, just the idiots that write the laws you endure.
Believe me, it may be even worse here in Illinois.
Thank you.
BTW, I recently watched Ken Burns' series on the Civil War and was wondering just this morning what the namesake of your tag line said to McClellan when he entered the Pearly Gates.
I meant no offense to the good folks of California, like you I presume, just the idiots that write the laws you endure. Believe me, it may be even worse here in Illinois.
LOL
Yeah... I voted for him too. What a devastating revelation that was! I thought the man recognized that US citizenship was to be cherished. Bush is truly one one the biggest disappointments of my life. He is the equivalent of putting your life savings into a stock like Enron. Maybe we'll be given a decent choice in 2008. But, only if Duncan Hunter is in the running.
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